Wiknatanja

The Wiknatanja (Wik Ngathanya) were an indigenous Australian people, one of the Wik tribes of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

Languages

Wiknatanja was one of the Wik languages.

Country

Norman Tindale estimate Wiknatanja lands to encompass some 300 square miles (780 km²) on the coast around mouths of the Kendall River.[1]

Alternative names

• Wik-Ngartona.
• Wik-Natan.
• Wik-ngatona.[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 189.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
• McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. JSTOR 40327744.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. JSTOR 40327867.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sutton, Peter (1979). Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wiknatanja (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)